Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst

Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst

Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst KG PC ( May 22, 1762 - July 27, 1834 in London ) was a British nobleman and politician.

family

He was the eldest son of Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst . On April 1, 1789, he married Georgina (December 6, 1765 - January 20, 1841), the daughter of Lord George Henry Lennox and granddaughter of the 2nd Duke of Richmond . The couple had four sons and two daughters. His eldest son Henry George (born February 24, 1790, † May 25, 1866) inherited the title of 4th Earl Bathurst.

Politician

To 1779 he attended the Christ Church College of Oxford University . In 1783 he became a Member of the House of Commons for Cirencester in Gloucestershire , before he inherited his title on the death of his father on August 6, 1794 and took his place in the House of Lords . Thanks to his friendship with Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger , he became Lord of the Admiralty in 1783. From 1789 to 1791 he was Lord of the Treasury .

When Pitt became Prime Minister a second time in May 1804, Bathurst took over the post of Head of the Royal Mint (Master of the Mint) . He held this position until 1806 and again from 1807 to 1812. Among the prime ministers Lord William Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland and Spencer Perceval was he president of the Board of Trade ( Board of Trade ) . In 1809 he was Foreign Minister from October to December . He became Secretary of War and Colonial Affairs on June 11, 1812 , when the incumbent Minister, Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool , took office as Prime Minister. Bathurst held this position until April 30, 1827 and it was thanks to this office that various remote places were named after him. In 1817 he was accepted into the Order of the Garter.

In the reign of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , he held the office of Lord President of the Council from January 28, 1828 to November 22, 1830 , an office that his father had held from 1779 to 1782. He supported Catholic emancipation and was an opponent of the parliamentary reform passed in 1832 .

Honors

The following were named after Henry Bathurst:

• the city of Bathurst in the Canadian province of New Brunswick
• the city of Bathurst, founded in 1815 in the Australian state of New South Wales
• the capital of Gambia , founded in 1816, renamed Banjul in 1973
• Bathurst Island in northern Canada, discovered in 1819
• the Bathurst Island in northern Australia
• Bathurst in the South African province of Eastern Cape, founded in 1820 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 117
2. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 118
3. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 138

Web links

• Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst of Bathurst on thepeerage.com , accessed September 14, 2016.
• Henry Bathurst at Hansard (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Henry Bathurst	Earl Bathurst 1794-1834	Henry Bathurst
John Smyth	Master of the Mint 1804-1806	Charles Spencer
William Eden	President of the Board of Trade 1807-1812	Richard Trench
Charles Bathurst	Master of the Mint 1807-1812	Richard Trench
Robert Jenkinson	Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1812-1827	Frederick Robinson
William Bentinck	Lord President of the Council 1828-1830	Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice